Obama No. 1 in 'space top 10'.

• Author: Cote, Mike
• Position: [AEROSPACE] - Barack Obama - Brief article

Worldwide achievements in the space industry over the past year included the discovery of water on Mars, milestones by India, China and Japan, and a series of successful Air Force missions managed by United Launch Alliance, which has major operations in Colorado.

But for Elliot Pulham, president of the Colorado Spring-based Space Foundation, the biggest space news of the year was the election of Barack Obama. Pulham put Obama's election at No. 1 in a top 10 list he presented to the Colorado Space Business Roundtable in Denver last month.

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Why Obama? Not since the Lyndon Johnson administration has a presidential nominee acted so swiftly to put together a NASA transition team, Pulham told the group, noting that the Obama team had a 26-page space platform that calls for improved funding for NASA.

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